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Breeding success: London Zoo counts animals one by one
Last year, 11 chicks and five new adults were born, and keepers are able to recognize each Humboldt penguin individually. Armed with tons of lettuce and buckets of nuts, London Zoo began its annual animal count on Friday, ushering everything from goats to gorillas out of their enclosures for a monumental inventory. The nearly two-century-old zoo holds a nearly week-long…
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Can captive breeding save this disappearing Everglades bird?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain South Florida water managers approve a breeding program for the endangered Everglades sparrow, which has been at the center of debate for decades over how to move water to dry wetlands to restore them. did. Cape Sable’s beach sparrow pilot program is likely to alter seasonal flood control in the sparrow’s habitat, which managers say could…
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